Melanie Mattson, friend, colleague, flu blog pioneer
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Effect Measure
Effect Measure is a forum for progressive public health discussion and argument as well as a source of public health information from around the web that interests the Editor(s)
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The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts "Revere" to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things.
Recent Posts
- The Katrina aid that wasn't
- The Iraq-Pakistan border is not a problem
- Salmonella outbreak developments
- HIV/AIDS grossly underestimated in US?
- Spoiling the tomato barrel
- Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: Prime Movers
- "One donut, decaf, no glaze, no powdered sugar"
- The US is one of the better off developing nations
- "Braised enterovirus" and "Fuck the spring chicken"
- Swimming and the "one hour rule"
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Blog:
Announcing a summer schedule
Easing up on our posting schedule.Posted on April 27, 2008 4:44 PM • 24 Comments •
Comcast is CrapComtastic
Comcast throttles public hearing bandwidth.
Posted on February 28, 2008 3:54 PM • 6 Comments •
How to behave on an internet forum: brought to you without comment as a public service
No comment.Posted on February 21, 2008 4:18 PM • 6 Comments •
Preparedness and predicaments
It's all about priorities.Posted on February 4, 2008 7:37 AM • 3 Comments •
The Squid gets the last laugh
Anals [sic] of the Law.Posted on December 13, 2007 4:15 PM • 3 Comments •
Not an after life but a Second Life; chat with DemFromCT (with Update)
Public health event tonight (December 6, 2007) in Second LifePosted on December 6, 2007 4:06 PM • 4 Comments •
Today is Effect Measure's third blogiversary
We survived three years. We're as surprised as you are.Posted on November 25, 2007 4:52 PM • 29 Comments •
NIOSH has a blog
A government agency blog is born. Possibly a preemie.Posted on November 21, 2007 3:33 PM • 9 Comments •
The Pump Handle: One year and counting
A milestone event in the public health blogosphere.Posted on November 16, 2007 4:04 PM • 3 Comments •
Orac is upset with me
Two Sciencebloggers slug it out.Posted on October 17, 2007 3:19 PM • 32 Comments •
Send a blogger to college, take 2
Shelley Batts. Shelley Batts. Shelley Batts. Remember that name.Posted on October 8, 2007 7:16 PM • 3 Comments •
Being a journalist means never having to say you were wrong
Newspapers make lots of mistakes. But their mistakes aren't news.Posted on September 10, 2007 3:56 PM • 9 Comments •
New York Times uses story, neglects to mention blogger is the source
Times editor drops mention of blogger who broke story.Posted on September 5, 2007 3:56 PM • 19 Comments •
Connectile dysfunction
Disconnected.Posted on August 26, 2007 4:09 PM • 11 Comments •
Whoops! -- and vacation schedule
We reschedule the Sermonette and admit we are trying to vacation.Posted on August 11, 2007 9:57 AM • 2 Comments •
Welcome to the Angry Toxicologist
More company.Posted on June 23, 2007 12:47 PM • 0 Comments •
Desperate measures at HHS. They want to talk to you.
Flu blogging gets shows its street creds.Posted on May 23, 2007 7:21 AM • 14 Comments •
MPAA: not as bad as Kissinger or Bush
MPAA rips off a software writer.Posted on February 20, 2007 4:55 PM • 6 Comments •
Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: the Edwards blogger dust-up
Far right Catholic bigot charges anti-Catholic bigotry. Par for the course.Posted on February 11, 2007 7:10 AM • 32 Comments •
Party tonight at Confined Space (sigh). See you there!
Confined Spacegoes dark. But Congress will be illuminated.Posted on January 24, 2007 10:47 AM • 0 Comments •
Koufax award nominations now open (but only until January 21!)
Your chance (or not) to nominate us for a coveted Koufax Award (best lefty blog).Posted on January 16, 2007 4:42 PM • 2 Comments •
Medblog Awards. Last chance to vote.
Last chance to vote for us for a MedBlogger award.Posted on January 13, 2007 12:22 PM • 2 Comments •
The good news and the good news in the public health blogosphere
The Pump Handle brings some good news.Posted on January 12, 2007 5:13 PM • 1 Comments •
Medblog Awards. Voting time.
Voting is on for the best of the medical blogosphere.Posted on January 5, 2007 5:16 PM • 4 Comments •
Bird flu, TB, anthrax and some thoughts on New Years Day
Why we don't do XDR TB as much as we should and what we do, do.Posted on January 1, 2007 7:34 AM • 8 Comments •
Effect Measure's second blogiversary: still crazy after all these years
Measuring Effect Measure's effectPosted on November 26, 2006 3:04 PM • 18 Comments •
Nerdiest ScienceBlogger: me
True nerdiness is a thing forever.Posted on October 22, 2006 6:49 PM • 13 Comments •
CDC recognizes the blogosphere
The federal establishment and the new media.Posted on October 15, 2006 3:26 PM • 10 Comments •
Saving the lives of six of our colleagues (The Tripoli Six)
Five nurses and a doctor on trial for their lives in Libya. The scientific community needs to weigh in.Posted on September 20, 2006 10:10 PM • 9 Comments •
Portrait of the blogger as an old man
Who blogs and why. Good question.Posted on September 2, 2006 8:17 AM • 7 Comments •
Indian blog banning fiasco update
Why India banned blogsPosted on July 22, 2006 8:23 AM • 3 Comments •
India shuts out the world's bloggers
blogspot. typepad, geocities and others shut out.Posted on July 19, 2006 7:21 AM • 18 Comments •
Bump is back! Long live Bump!
Our wiki partner and blogiste extraordinary, Melanie, is back at Just a Bump in the Beltway. Note the new URL and new look. Her absence over the last week was a result of a Trackback spam attack that took her...Posted on July 17, 2006 10:05 AM • 0 Comments •
The Nature list of science blogs
Nature's list of popular science blogs and the meaning of "working scientist."Posted on July 8, 2006 7:09 AM • 5 Comments •
An irrational demand
ScienceBlogs newcomer copes with an irrational demand from a neighborPosted on June 12, 2006 7:00 AM • 7 Comments •
Hit by a blog meme
Response to being tagged by the Random Eight memePosted on June 11, 2006 3:01 PM • 7 Comments •
Housewarming
Welcome to our new house at ScienceBlogs. We trust our old readers had no trouble with the directions to get here. You can wander off to the kitchen and fix yourself a drink while we introduce ourselves to our new neighbors.Posted on June 9, 2006 1:36 PM • 52 Comments •
